Scholar named president of new Episcopal Health Foundation

Elena Marks has been named president and chief executive officer of the new Episcopal Health Foundation, the Episcopal Diocese has announced.

Beginning Jan. 13, Marks, currently a health policy scholar at Rice University, will oversee the $1 billion foundation, whose grants will address many of the health needs of the underserved in the 57-county diocese.

“I believe we have made a stellar choice in Elena Marks to help guide Episcopal Health Foundation,” said Bishcop C. Andrew Doyle in a statement. “We are at the threshold of the great moment for the Episcopal Church in our Diocese and with this new foudnation we will endavor to serve God’s people who are in need.”

Marks is currently at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice. She previously served as director of Health and Environmental Policy for the City of Houston from 2004to 2009.

“I am honored to have been chosen to lead Episcopal Health Foundation,” Marks said in the statment. “This significant gift holds the potential to transform the lives of millions of Texans by investing in the health of the communities throughout the Diocese.”